The best part is just starting. Now Burke is against the wall, he has to flip a defenseman for a forward yet every GM in the league knows he is desperate. He's not getting a top 6 forward unless Schenn's name enters the picture.

Dude, I spit orange juice all over my monitor. OMG, I'm still laughing.

The best part has already happened: you've been proven wrong by captain hindsight!

The best part is just starting. Now Burke is against the wall, he has to flip a defenseman for a forward yet every GM in the league knows he is desperate. He's not getting a top 6 forward unless Schenn's name enters the picture.

DING DING DING!!!

The winner of today's "Value This Player" goes to Hounsy!!

The winner of today's "I am a Crappy GM" is unifiedtheory.

Awwwww just saw that I am waaaay to late for this one.

Last edited by CellarDweller0: 02-09-2011 at 11:28 PM.
Reason: Awww crapola...too late for this :(

The best part is just starting. Now Burke is against the wall, he has to flip a defenseman for a forward yet every GM in the league knows he is desperate. He's not getting a top 6 forward unless Schenn's name enters the picture.

Wow talk about a reach... are you guys going to bump this thread again if Lupul gets buried in the minors? I mean the guys missed more than half the season and is only on pace for 15 goals and 40 points, which wouldn't be too bad if he wasn't signed two more seasons with a $4.25M cap hit.

Personally when the season was young and this thread first created I thought Lupul could be a potential swap for Beauchemin, but that was because the season was young and there was the chance he could stay healthy and regain his old form. And he still might for Toronto which would make the deal a steal. But let's not fool ourselves, at this point he's a guy that would clear waivers, and I thought it was pretty obvious that Burke had to take him in the deal in order to get Anaheim to deal Gardiner. I mean I have nothing against the guy and I hope he succeeds (I have him on a stat-based sim league), but chances are Burke has to bury his contract in the minors a la Wade Redden for the two remaining years.

Wow talk about a reach... are you guys going to bump this thread again if Lupul gets buried in the minors? I mean the guys missed more than half the season and is only on pace for 15 goals and 40 points, which wouldn't be too bad if he wasn't signed two more seasons with a $4.25M cap hit.

Personally when the season was young and this thread first created I thought Lupul could be a potential swap for Beauchemin, but that was because the season was young and there was the chance he could stay healthy and regain his old form. And he still might for Toronto which would make the deal a steal. But let's not fool ourselves, at this point he's a guy that would clear waivers, and I thought it was pretty obvious that Burke had to take him in the deal in order to get Anaheim to deal Gardiner. I mean I have nothing against the guy and I hope he succeeds (I have him on a stat-based sim league), but chances are Burke has to bury his contract in the minors a la Wade Redden for the two remaining years.

Here's the problem with burying Lupul....

Tagging room. You can only exceed the cap by 10% in the offseason. At a $61.4m cap, that means you can exceed by $6.1m. Toronto already has Finger buried at $3.5m for next year. 3.5 + 4.25 - 6.1 = $1.65m that Toronto wont be able to use until October 1st.

The best part is just starting. Now Burke is against the wall, he has to flip a defenseman for a forward yet every GM in the league knows he is desperate. He's not getting a top 6 forward unless Schenn's name enters the picture.

Tagging room. You can only exceed the cap by 10% in the offseason. At a $61.4m cap, that means you can exceed by $6.1m. Toronto already has Finger buried at $3.5m for next year. 3.5 + 4.25 - 6.1 = $1.65m that Toronto wont be able to use until October 1st.

Yeah that's a good point, that myself and probably many others are overlooking. You'd either have to go into the regular season with Finger or Lupul on the roster, then demote and hope there's someone to add, or if you need to do it in the offseason simply buy out Fingers contract and lose some cap space ($1.15M or so?) for two seasons. I could be wrong but I don't think Finger was a Burke signing, so there's no harm to his ego there.